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Re: list wonkiness (was: Re: [PLUG] test)
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:43:57PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> > In all seriousness, it's my understanding now that it was a mail
> > delivery problem. Mailman was sending out the mail just fine, but
> > things broke down at the MTA level. Whatever had gotten logjammed got
> > cleared today and things resumed to normal.
>
> What's the MTA? (Or was this mail routing through an upstream
> provider that took the weekend off?)
MTA is Sendmail, the most popular mail server of the net.
$ host -t MX lists.phillylinux.org
lists.phillylinux.org MX 10 merlin.nothinbut.net
lists.phillylinux.org MX 20 www.nothinbut.net
$ telnet merlin.nothinbut.net 25
Trying 207.44.32.20...
Connected to merlin.nothinbut.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 arthur.nothinbut.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21; Mon,
24 Sep 2001 18:58:47 -0400
Maybe someone should ask Len what went wrong.
Thanks,
Chuck
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